Judges and Judiciary, In Recess
Justice recalls the good and bad of her past as a nurse in Vietnam
By Skylar Dubelko
California Court of Appeal Justice Eileen Moore delivered a heart-wrenching speech at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on Sunday.
Entertainment & Sports, California Courts of Appeal
Warner Brothers wins dismissal of profit participation suit
By Steven Crighton
The final bell has tolled for a high-stakes profit participation lawsuit against Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. after a 2n...
Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit hears debate on whether Kate Steinle’s parents can sue SF
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
An appeals court panel appeared divided Thursday over whether San Francisco can be held liable for the shooting death of a you...
Civil Litigation
Following two mistrials, Johnson & Johnson gets second baby powder defense win
By Justin Kloczko
This week’s defense verdict in Northern California finding Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder didn’t give a plaintiff cancer ...
Law Practice, Education Law
McGeorge School of Law team wins national mock trial title
By Erin Lee
A McGeorge School of Law mock trial team won the 17th annual National Civil Trial Competition Sunday.
California Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations
State high court denies review in State Bar data fight
By Erin Lee
The California Supreme Court denied a petition for review in the State Bar data case Wednesday, ending an 11-year battle.
Labor/Employment
E-scooter company accused of misclassifying “juicers” as contractors
By Andy Serbe
E-scooter company LimeBike has been sued by one of its “juicers,” workers paid by the company to charge rental scooters and bi...
Criminal, Constitutional Law
Riverside prosecutor says she’ll seek to unseal wiretap records
By Blaise Scemama
Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Malloy indicated he would likely review the unsealed orders in camera before oral ...
Women, minorities were paid less than white and Asian men.
Government, Criminal
California attorneys say federal criminal justice bill will make marked impact
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Former prosecutors are backing the bill in ways state prosecutors did not when similar measures were working their way through...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, California Supreme Court
After a long wait, Brown chooses familiar face for state high court
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday nominated his legal affairs aide Joshua Groban to sit on the state Supreme Court.
While the first of potentially thousands of lawsuits related to the recent wildfires has been filed against Pacific Gas & ...
Law Practice, Corporate
Anaheim interior surface products distributor hires first general counsel
By Matthew Sanderson
Shawn Baldwin, who comes from Equifax Inc. and Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will be developing Select Interior Concept Inc.’s legal poli...
Law Practice
Munger Tolles vet moves to plaintiff’s side at Reid Collins & Tsai
By Matthew Sanderson
Marc Dworsky, who was lead counsel for all of the nation’s residential mortgage-backed litigation against Wells Fargo, moves t...
Intellectual Property, Criminal
Prosecution rests in Mongols racketeering trial
By Meghann Cuniff
Two retired federal agents who infiltrated outlaw motorcycle gangs recently took the unusual role of defense witnesses for the...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights
Rare trial over Monster drinks starts in Riverside
By Laurinda Keys
With the jury selected, a personal injury trial began Wednesday involving a Texas man accusing Monster Energy Drinks of causin...
Immigration, Government
State law enforcement provided information that led to deportations
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Thousands of immigrants were deported in the last fiscal year as the result of information sent to the federal government by C...
Securities, Civil Litigation, Corporate
Executive accused of insider trading settles SEC case
By Meghann Cuniff
An executive accused of insider trading will pay $1.5 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission case against him,...
Law Practice
2 Polsinelli labor and employment partners head to Reed Smith
By Andy Serbe
Specialists Michele Haydel Gehrke and Anne Cherry Barnett have left Polsinelli LLP to take point in Reed Smith LLP’s labor dep...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit, Central District picks formally nominated, weeks before congressional session will end
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
The White House has filed formal paperwork to nominate five attorneys and one state judge to a slate of federal bench seats in...
Judges and Judiciary, California Supreme Court
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
Berkeley Law is eliminating the Boalt name from its campus in light of John Boalt’s racist views.
Civil Litigation, Government
As fires continue, state officials ponder wildfire liability again
By Malcolm Maclachlan
As firefighters battle deadly blazes across California, wildfire liability promises to be one of the biggest issues in the sta...
Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit taps UC Berkeley’s Title IX administrator for new workplace director role
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A UC Berkeley administrator who oversees Title IX compliance has been selected as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ first...
Labor/Employment
Post-trial calculation hits employer with $30M in damages
By Andy Serbe
By a federal judge’s post-trial rulings on the nature and calculation of damages in an employment misclassification trial agai...
Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Lawyers for NCAA, athletes debate import of amateurism in closings of landmark trial
By Winston Cho
The National Collegiate Athletic Association argued that its viewers “overwhelmingly oppose” upending the current compensation...
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit weighs lawsuit seeking to block Jewish ritual chicken slaughter
By Nicolas Sonnenburg
A Virginia-based animal advocacy group trying to stop an Orange County synagogue from practicing the ritual slaughter of chick...
Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Immigrant kids won’t automatically get lawyers, 9th Circuit rules
By Chase DiFeliciantonio
Immigrant children facing deportation will not automatically be given immigration lawyers after 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
Government, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit takes up decades-old mentally ill prisoners case
By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging...
Government
Judge rules Santa Monica’s at-large voting system illegal
By Justin Kloczko
A judge has tentatively ruled that the city of Santa Monica’s election system violated the California Voting Rights Act, the 2...